Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-18
TEE FLAGS.
What the Governors of Several of
the Southern States Have to
Say About the Matter.
The GoTerner OF Alabama Writes &
Beautiful and Patriotic letter
About the Stars and Stripes.
The Official Record of the Presentation, nj
Stho Battle Flags Proposition
TO tho President
What the Govsrnors say.

NEW YORK, June I7.-Prior to the issue
of the Presidents letter to the Secretary
of War resembling the order for the re
turn OF the flags, the World addressed
telegraphic inquiry to the Governor Of
every state in the Union asking for his
views upon the ORDERS. The following
were among those received last night.
GEORGIA.
ATLANTA, GA..4 June l7.-When the
proposition first reached me / regarded it
IS an additional evidence of restored
concord and fraternal sentiment As
such my heart responded most warmly to
the movement, but as portion Of the
northern press and people seek to make
it the occasion for renewed arrangement
and bitterness, would prefer to leave
the flags where they are We are wearv.
Of strife and hatred. We want peace and
good WILL and prefer those to the return
Of even such cherished relics.
Signed J.. B. GORDON.
NORTH CAROLINA.
RALEIGH, n. c., June LIT is the best
possible disposition of the flags, and
gives satisfaction to us.
A. NJ. SCALES,
Governor.
VIRGINIA.
RICHMOND, VA, Juue 1.-THE action
OF the Government in ordering the return
of the southern battle flags is regarded as
proof that in the opinion Of the executive
the. southern states can preserve the
memories OF the past and still do their
whole duty as CoequGI states to 3 common
uAon l. the present and in the future.
FITzHUGH LEE, Governor.
LOUISIANA.
BATON ROUGE, LA. June Ill think
the southern battle flags should re re-
turned. The sections have been grad
uallY tending toward peace AID iraternal
relations, snG the retu OF these flags
endeGred to the heroic men who surren-
dered them by many associations Of hone
and battle will further strengthen the
bonds OF the nation. have asked their
return TO the various commands ia this
state, and the occasion will be made one
of rejoicing. S. D. MCENERY,
Governor
ALABAMA.
MONTGOMERY, Ala, June I7.-Hon.
W. G. EndicOtt, Secretary of War, Wash
ington. Sir-I acknowledge q comm1ni-
cation from General r. G.. Drum, Adiu-
rendering the flags il the
war office at Washington to the late vol
unteer organizations of the state of
Alabama. The stalwRrt forms Of those
who upheld the standards are asleep in
death or are broken by wounds, by dis
ease and miserable fate, and the tender
grace Of this hour may not reach the ears
Of those cold IN death, but it will gladden.
the hearts of the old heroes whose beat is
strong and it will brighten and gladden.
those beginning to dim with age.
The awful cnasm Of that bloody
lime in which was deluged the best blood
Of our country reopens for sn instant and
put OF it emanates not martial spectre
put the shining figure of the angel Of
peace. This lustrOus achievement has
about it the charity which blesseth him
hat giveth and him that tsketn. Indeed,
t doth become our Union even more
han Gettysburg or Appomattox. The
broad ensign of the republic floats tri-
about the dome of the ancient
capital of the Confederacy at Mont
,omerY. Insult to it would awaken g
var the ike OF which has never been
lesrd before and men who resisted the
.dvence of that standard would seek
leath beneath its consecrated and its
rscious folds.